Create allergy card
← Browse ingredients

Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste

Southern Thai yellow curry paste is a turmeric-colored chili and aromatic paste used to season southern Thai yellow curries.

Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste — illustrative ingredient image

About Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste

Southern Thai yellow curry paste is a regional Thai seasoning paste made with turmeric, dried or fresh chilies, and aromatic ingredients such as shallot, garlic, lemongrass, galangal, or spices. Its exact composition varies among prepared pastes and household formulas, so turmeric gives it a yellow to orange color rather than defining every ingredient.

It is used as the flavor base for southern Thai yellow curries and related seafood, fish, meat, or vegetable preparations. The paste is typically dense and moist, with a pungent chili aroma, earthy turmeric character, and layered savory, citrusy, and aromatic notes.

It may be sold freshly pounded, refrigerated, frozen, or commercially packaged in jars or sachets. Preparation in a curry or related dish disperses and dilutes the paste, while frying or simmering can alter its moisture, texture, aroma, and intensity.

Ingredient type
paste

Forms & related ingredients

  • Dried Red Chillicontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Dried Red Chilli
  • Shrimp Pastecontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Shrimp Paste
  • Galangalcontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Galangal
  • Turmericcontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Turmeric
  • Shallotcontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Shallot
  • Cumin Seedcontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Cumin Seed
  • Garliccontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Garlic
  • Lemongrasscontains · Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste → Lemongrass

FOLLOW IT TO THE PLATE

Where will you meet it?

Explore the dishes that use this ingredient and their country and cuisine connections.

Explore linked dishes

ON A MENU OR LABEL

Find local names and written forms to help recognise this ingredient.

See local names

Where southern thai yellow curry paste appears

1 linked foods

Find foods to recognise by country and type. Recipes and products vary; these are recorded ingredient connections.

Showing 1–1 of 1

Main dishes

Ingredient connections awaiting review · Coverage is still growing, including packaged snacks.

Name examples awaiting language review. Confirm the specific food or product.

Local names for southern thai yellow curry paste

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste

Available names only. Languages may be spoken in other countries; a name alone does not identify every ingredient in a dish.

Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste nutrition & diet

Southern Thai Yellow Curry Paste nutritional value

Reference: Curry paste

Per 100 g of 100 g edible portion in the named official reference form.

Calories
253kcal
Protein
4.7g
Carbs
11.3g
Fat
21.3g

Official national food-composition reference. The displayed food form is part of the estimate; cultivar, recipe, brand, processing and preparation can change values.

Portions & preparation

Reference the exact Southern Thai yellow curry paste recipe or brand and the amount used. Turmeric, chilies, aromatics, salt, shrimp paste, fish products, oils, and thickeners vary. Evaluate the paste separately from the curry, because coconut milk, meat, seafood, vegetables, and rice alter the completed preparation.

Compare the right form: Match the specific Southern Thai yellow curry-paste brand or recipe, including turmeric, animal-derived seasonings, oil, salt, and serving portion.

Diet considerations

The paste contains plant aromatics and spices, but shrimp paste, fish products, or other animal ingredients may be present. Plain paste is not automatically compatible with every plant-based pattern. Coconut milk, meat, seafood, eggs, cereal thickeners, and rice served with the curry change the full dish’s diet classification and carbohydrate pattern.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Depends on the version
  • Vegetarian
    Depends on the version
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Depends on the version
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Depends on the version
Optional or variable recorded ingredients: Shrimp Paste. The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative. Recipes and products can differ.
Vegetarian · Depends on the version
Optional or variable recorded ingredients: Shrimp Paste. The profile identifies animal flesh, seafood or a derivative excluded by a vegetarian diet. Recipes and products can differ.
Pescatarian · Not established
The available profile does not establish the full composition or processing for this dietary pattern.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Depends on the version
Optional or variable recorded ingredients: Shrimp Paste. Recorded common ingredients: Shrimp. This profile identifies shellfish, which does not meet the kosher fish criteria. Recipes and products can differ. Recipes and products can differ.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

Reviewed ingredient entryIngredient reference · Preparations vary

AI-generated illustration for visual context. It does not identify a particular product or establish allergen content.

Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Composition of foods integrated dataset (CoFID), 2021 — 17-720 ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

Last recorded verification: .